Networking meeting for radical left trans* and gender non-conforming people (Berlin autotrans*)

Since October 2009 there have been meetings of a loose collection of people who place themselves somewhere under the labels radical left and trans*.

Because content is more important to us than identities, we want to meetin a space that places an importance on the critique of binary sex. This critique cannot be taken in isolation, but rather must seen in connection with other societal structures. Then binary sex (and also trans*) cannot be thought of as disconnected from other power relations.

We don‘t have a collective definition of what „radical left“ actually means, but we want a minimal consensus that includes the rejection of the repressive organs of the state1 and oppressive power relations such as racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism and ableism.

So far we have created an info-flyer about trans* for the left scene, a working group has been set up to make a collection of writing, we have held a workshop about detention and ways of dealing with the police, discussed our understanding of „radical left“ and reflected over the transgender Day of Remembrance… Further themes which we have only started to discuss and would like to further discuss include prison, migration, pathologisation, psychiatry and gender quotas (e.g. in house projects/truck squats).

autotrans@riseup.net.

This is especially important for us because of the failure of the Berlin queer and trans* scene to exclude cops from events. [zurück]